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26/6/2009 - a note to my tutor...

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Just a note to say thanks for the chat the other day – it sorta settled my worries. When I said ‘I’m kinda confused’ and you said “Hey that’s cool’ I felt better.

 

 

I just wanted to tap out some of my reading notes in an email as some of the comments I have regarding the first readings are likely to get entirely lost in a tute (and rightly so as they are largely peripheral)

 

The reason I looked a little lost after the readings for week one is that they are not only wildly different but it has taken me three days and four attempts to simply get to the end of Reading Two Investigating Citizenship (and it’s only sixteen pages long!) And I'm not quite there yet.

It is maddening and wonderful all at once.

 

The early consideration of the utilities of the citizenship discourse across the old/new world is great. (But then apparently Hobbes couldn’t recognize a citizen, Engels engages in libertarian critique and Orwell is a catalyst for Marshallian reform!?!)

 

And what can you say about a magnificent sentence like

 

“…social citizenship was the unintended consequence of wartime mobilization and strategies to rebuild post-war Britain in the context of imperial failure”

 

It’s intriguing in a ‘slow down there’s a car accident’ sorta way.

 

And “Social Keynesianism was of course deeply resisted in the United States…”

 

Uh huh? First of all what the hell is ‘social Keynesianism’? And regardless: what exact proportion of the American Keynesian theorists should we march out the back of the building and shoot to match up with this statement? (It might depopulate parts of the Federal Reserve system.)

 

Etc etc…

 

But hey, I’m really enjoying my newfound confusion…

 

And I’ve still got a couple of days to get from page 14 to the end…

 

See you in the tute

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6/10/2006 - A Political Nursery Rhyme (from the 'tee-hee' file)

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one scruple

two scruple

three scruple

four

see the little scruples being swept outside the door

 

five scruple

six scruple

seven scruple

eight

(we’ll just pause to teach a Page how to masturbate)

 

eight scruple

seven scruple

six scruple

five

now watch our Representatives begin to duck and dive

 

four scruple

three scruple

two scruple

one

isn’t modern politics ever so much fun

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23/9/2006 - A QUICK QUIZ: Are you fit to serve in the Bush Administration?

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APPLICATION FOR EMPLOYMENT: PART 14

FORM-666-110901-STAFF POSITION


THE FOLLOWING DETAILS ARE REQUIRED SO AS TO BETTER ASSESS YOUR APPLICATION

 

PLEASE ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS HONESTLY*.

* We have ways of knowing!!


 

1 How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?

Circle one (or more)

a- 1

b- 32

c- as many as might be required.

 

 

2 What colour is the White House?

a- red white and blue.

b- puce.

c- blindingly white.

d- Republican.

 

3 The American Constitution is…

a- the foundation stone of American democracy.

b- a work in progress.

c- doesn’t apply to the Commander in Chief.

d- the product of divine inspiration.

e- all of the above.

f- some of the above, some of the time.

g- not worth a hanging chad.

 

4 The Central Intelligence Agency is…

a- a shield protecting the heart of our democracy.

b- a nifty way of finding out just about anything about anything!

c- better than your average phone company.

d- a Cold War anachronism.

e- don’t understand the word ‘anachronism’

 

5 Osama Bin Laden is…

a- pure unadulterated evil.

b- possibly a Muslim.

c- a priority.

h- still at large.

 

6 Complete this sentence: “America is the land of the free and the home of the_________”.

a- soldier.

b- corporation.

c- tax break for the wealthy.

d- [insert sexual preference]

e- rave grave brave.

 

6b Katrina is…

a- a lovely name.

b- a nasty un-American, foreign (and possibly communist) name

c- just a name.

d- a profound depression.

 

7 Iraq is…

a- not in the throes of a civil war.

b- (potentially) a shining example of democratic progress in the region.

c- obviously not in the throes of a civil war.

d- a funny name for gas station?

e-  absolutely and positively, and I say this with my hand on my heart, not in the throes of a civil war.

 

8 Who is the greatest of the following Great American Presidents..

a- Daniel D Tompkins.

b- George Bush.

c- George Clinton.

d- George Dallas.

e- George Bush.

 

9 My daddy is very very rich.

a- true.

b- not true.

c- will be true.

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